Amsted Rail had a large line of business application responsible for capturing quality assurance metrics on all products before they can be shipped. The solution became cumbersome to maintain and prevented the team from keeping pace with business demands.

Business Challenges

A need to use modern tooling and frameworks to reduce the time investment associated with developing
new features

Business logic distributed across multiple programming languages and locations making it difficult to identify which tiers of the application would be impacted by a new request

Lack of unit tests which allowed new features and updates to introduce regression defects on new releases

Knowing there were risks tied to requesting new features the business became hesitant and afraid to perform releases depending on the scope of the change.

Key Deliverables

Development of a new solution using modern frameworks and technologies

During migration, unit tests were created to improve the quality of the solution by preventing changes from having undetected unintentional consequences

Multiple sessions with the IT and business teams to review wireframes and discuss each change before it was developed and implemented

Oakwood built estimates, clearly communicated the technical impact of each decision, led the task management process, implemented code changes and unit tests

Constant IT team updates by surfacing risks and issues and remediation strategies

Demonstrations with business users to iteratively re-align the development with the business

Established new business goals through the guidance of best practices for application development

Benefits

A more flexible solution through the use of modern software tooling and frameworks.

Implementation of features using Test Driven Development (TDD)

Better feedback with the business led to the generation of a product more closely aligned with the business goals

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